TGIF-Quotes

Yeah! It's Friday! TGIF is hosted by the fabulous Ginger at GREADS. Each week features a different book related question:
This weeks question:

And I Quote: What are some of your favorite book quotes?



The written word speaks to me in a way that nothing else can which is why I'm so in love with reading. I truly feel that books sometimes fall into my hands at the exact moment they need to because there is something I need  to see, envision or learn. Lauren Oliver's books are an example of this.....so many wonderful things inside the covers which is why I keep so many quotes from her books......


"I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go."

— Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall)

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
— Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall)

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
— Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel)


"And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once."
— Lauren Oliver (Delirium)

"Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone is to accept whatever it is they’ve got to offer you”
--Anna Humphrey (Rhymes with Cupid)

"Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you."
— Gayle Forman (If I Stay)

"It´s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it´s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it´s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."
— Lauren Oliver (Delirium)

"The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side."
— Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall)

I don't know if authors really fully know what an impact they have on our lives. Escapism yes, but they also have lead the way for many life changing moments just through their words. Lauren Oliver and Gayle Forman (and many others) have truly impacted mine and I'll be forever grateful.